Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Wolfgang's Use of Pathos

In the cartoon Woflgang uses pathos obvioulsy through pictures the most, but also through very few words. It starts off as what seems to be a old man who has just past and his soul is trying to find its way to "heaven". You see first it visits what looks like him reading to someone else. As the ghost of the old man moves on he travels through the town and it seems to be different parts of his life, only backwards. He finally sees him as a boy and the boy tells him that hes on the road to being dead, and there is no such thing as heaven, "everything just goes black", is how they explain it. When the old man gets mad that hes not going to heaven, which he considered the "pay-off", the angel on his left says that living life in dignity is the reward and the devil explains living life in shame is a punishment. Not only does Woflgang use funny illustrations as pathos, but also some words to describe what I guess he feels is life after death.

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